SQL question: checking all required items

Started by Raymond O'Donnellover 18 years ago7 messagesgeneral
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Hi all,

Given the following tables -

create table people (
person_id text primary key,
person_name text,
[...etc...]
);

create table items (
item_id text primary key,
item_name text,
is_required boolean,
[...etc...]
);

create table items_for_people (
person_id text,
item_id text,
primary key (person_id, item_id),
foreign key person_id references people(person_id),
foreign key item_id references items(item_id)
);

- how can I find those people who don't have _all_ of the items which
are marked "required"?

In other words, how do I select those rows in "people" which don't have
a corresponding row in "items_for_people" for *each* row in "items"
which has is_required=true?

Many thanks,

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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#2Scott Marlowe
scott.marlowe@gmail.com
In reply to: Raymond O'Donnell (#1)
Re: SQL question: checking all required items

On 8/10/07, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:

- how can I find those people who don't have _all_ of the items which
are marked "required"?

In other words, how do I select those rows in "people" which don't have
a corresponding row in "items_for_people" for *each* row in "items"
which has is_required=true?

Without writing the exact query you need, I'll give you a couple of
ways to solve the problem of finding things in one set that aren't in
another.

select table1.id from table1 left join table2 on (table1.id=table2.id)
where table2.id is null
OR
select table1.id from table1 where table1.id is not in (select id from table2);

In reply to: Scott Marlowe (#2)
Re: SQL question: checking all required items

On 10/08/2007 21:29, Scott Marlowe wrote:

select table1.id from table1 where table1.id is not in (select id from table2);

Duh! I should have thought of that.... thanks for that, and apologies
for the stupidity (blame it on the glass of wine I had with dinner!).

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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#4Scott Marlowe
scott.marlowe@gmail.com
In reply to: Raymond O'Donnell (#3)
Re: SQL question: checking all required items

On 8/10/07, Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> wrote:

On 10/08/2007 21:29, Scott Marlowe wrote:

select table1.id from table1 where table1.id is not in (select id from table2);

Duh! I should have thought of that.... thanks for that, and apologies
for the stupidity (blame it on the glass of wine I had with dinner!).

It's only obvious after you've done it a few times...

Show us the query when you're done, I'm sure there are enough folks
who'd like to see your solution.

#5Carlos Ortíz
carlos.ortiz@stps.gob.mx
In reply to: Raymond O'Donnell (#1)
Re: SQL question: checking all required items

?
Try

Select * from people where person_id in (
Select person_ID from Items_for_people group by Person_id Having Count(*) = (
Select count(*) from Items Where is_required = true))

Or something like that. That's the idea. Probe it and tell us.
(May be the sintaxis it's not correct, but I'm new in postgresql. In sql server it's ok)

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De: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org en nombre de Raymond O'Donnell
Enviado el: Vie 10/08/2007 03:07 p.m.
Para: 'PostgreSQL'
Asunto: [GENERAL] SQL question: checking all required items

Hi all,

Given the following tables -

create table people (
person_id text primary key,
person_name text,
[...etc...]
);

create table items (
item_id text primary key,
item_name text,
is_required boolean,
[...etc...]
);

create table items_for_people (
person_id text,
item_id text,
primary key (person_id, item_id),
foreign key person_id references people(person_id),
foreign key item_id references items(item_id)
);

- how can I find those people who don't have _all_ of the items which
are marked "required"?

In other words, how do I select those rows in "people" which don't have
a corresponding row in "items_for_people" for *each* row in "items"
which has is_required=true?

Many thanks,

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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In reply to: Carlos Ortíz (#5)
Re: SQL question: checking all required items

On 10/08/2007 22:03, Carlos Ort�z wrote:

Select * from people where person_id in (
Select person_ID from Items_for_people group by Person_id Having Count(*) = (
Select count(*) from Items Where is_required = true))

That seems to work fine! I'd only change "having count(*) = ..." to
"having count(*) >= ..." to allow for people having other items in
addition to the required ones.

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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In reply to: Scott Marlowe (#4)
Re: SQL question: checking all required items

On 10/08/2007 21:42, Scott Marlowe wrote:

Show us the query when you're done, I'm sure there are enough folks
who'd like to see your solution.

Here's what I came up with:

select distinct ip.person_id from items_for_people ip
where exists (
(
select item_id from items
where is_required = true
)
except
(
select ip2.item_id from items_for_people ip2
inner join items i on (ip2.item_id = i.item_id)
where ip2.person_id = ip.person_id
and i.is_required = true
)
)

This finds all those who don't have all the required items, whatever
else they may have.

Comments and improvements are welcome!

Thanks for the help,

Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland
rod@iol.ie
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